Note XXI-8 — Chapter XXI · RIVAL GOVERNORS IN HONDURAS AND NICARAGUA. 1526-1530.
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Herrera would have us believe that starvation was over the whole country, in all its ghastly horrors, making it a question of life and death between Spaniard and Indian, who devoured each other. dec. iv. lib. i. cap. vii. But this is clearly exaggeration.